Spider-Man: Kraven's Last Hunt - Deluxe Edition

Product Information

It's brilliantly written by J.M. DeMatteis, who is one of the best comic book writers - or any kind of writers - out there. It's a terrific examination of what makes a hero. What makes a villain. What is the line between them - if the line even exists. It's psychologically deep and dark and not a little twisted. It will make you gasp, and feel angry and not a little sad, but ultimately leave you hopeful. Kraven believes that replacing Spider-Man simply involves skills and abilities. He has no real regard for the character's heroism, merely seeing him as an iconoclastic figure. He is essentially what a darker Peter Parker would be like, for better or worse. This is just like the many comics of the following decade that replaced cohesive storytelling and traditional heroics with things that simply looked interesting. Sure, Spider-Man's less forceful ways might not always grant him victory like Kraven's do, but they reflect his greater regard for life in all its forms. This is emphasized by Kraven dying alone, whereas even a beaten and bruised Spider-Man was able to go home to his then-wife Mary Jane. Esta historia está muy bien narrada, y aunque nuestro vecino favorito no sale mucho físicamente está siempre presente en la obra. Icónica es la imagen de Peter saliendo de la tumba en plena tormenta, como también lo es el final de la obra. While Spider-Man goes after Vermin, Kraven concludes he has conquered his inner demons and finally achieved happiness. After reminiscing about his past and the peace he now feels, Kraven commits suicide with a rifle. He leaves a confession of his burying and impersonating Spider-Man for the police to find, complete with photographic proof; this is published in the media. And when it’s done by a villain like Kraven, an experienced trained hunter, but still a man without any metahuman powers, the whole concept got even more frightening.

I know this is a "trait" of Peter Parker in the comics, that he blames himself for everything that goes wrong, no matter what. He feels he is responsible for every death, for every injury, that happens around him. He feels that every bad thing that happens in the world somehow can be traced to some action he took or failed to take. However, it does not translate well into a prose/novelized format. His constant "poor me/false martyr" symptoms are so annoying and appear to be nothing more than pathetic pleas for attention. There has to be a better way to present his feeling responsible for everything. So much of “Kraven’s Last Hunt” is spent in that dark night and deep grief, but the hope we glimpse at its end is just enough to carry on. Framing Fearful SymmetrySoul of the Hunter is kind of a dreary story about Spiderman coming to terms with the events of Kraven’s Last Hunt. Nothing really special there, besides some outstanding artwork. And this fearful symmetry also leads us to Spider-Man as a symbol of what we should be – brave in the face of death and still willing to show mercy and love even when confronted by the worst life can throw at us. The super-villains tend to overwork their plans along with their tactics to trap or to kill the heroes. After that, a really strange hallucination awakes Peter (really, what was all that for?) after two weeks, TWO WEEKS! When they finally meet again MJ does not seem to be worried at all, and she accepts him like if nothing had happened! They are both in such a good that they decide to get the party started (come on! he was buried for two weeks, he is weak, he hasn´t had a bath, the guy must smell like a corpse! yet, they continued their romance), that was lame. They don´t talk at all about what MJ has just gone through. Meh.

For Kraven, defeating Spider-Man and proving that he was worthy of taking the mantle of a great, mythic beast was the last reason to live. After years of mental anguish and with his last, madness-propelled desire attained, Kraven takes his own life. I "get it", that he has extreme guilt over being somewhat culpable for his Uncle Ben's death. The fact remains, though, that the criminal chose to shoot his Uncle Ben; Peter Parker and/or Spider-Man had nothing to do with the criminal actually raising his gun, pointing it, and pulling the trigger. That was the criminal's active choice; the criminal actively chose to shoot Peter's Uncle. Sure, Peter could have stopped the criminal from escaping, and he chose not to. But that does not make Peter directly responsible for Ben's death. He really needs to seek out some kind of counseling or something, either with Doc Samson or maybe somebody with S.H.I.E.L.D., because he is clearly having trouble coping with reality in terms of responsibility.

Heroically Support Comic Book Herald!

IGN Comics ranked "Kraven's Last Hunt" the #6 on a list of the 25 greatest Spider-Man stories, noting that it "is one of the most memorable Spider-Man stories of all time, without a doubt." [9] Collected editions [ edit ] Title Then there's the third main character, Vermin, who's an obscure villain that's a rat/human experiment gone wrong who murders/eats women at night. In a previous story arc Spidey and Cap spent an entire book taking down this character; his inclusion in this book is simply for Kraven to defeat him as easily as he did Spidey thus making him “better” than Spider-man (what a dumb character!). But really Kraven defeats both characters far too easily to convincingly claim that he’s a “better” anything, it’s just plotted in this contrived fashion to give the character some validation before getting rid of him.

The most immediate consequence of "Kraven's Last Hunt" was the death of Kraven for over 20 years of comic book storytelling in the main Marvel Universe. In the interim, Kraven's children would attempt to take on the mantle left vacant by their father and seek revenge on Spider-Man for being involved in his suicide. Mysterio would later cite Kraven's final victory over Spider-Man as the inspiration behind his own insidious plot in Kevin Smith, Joe Quesada and Jimmy Palmiotti's Daredevil storyline "Guardian Devil." Its execution, however, is anything but simple. The inner dialogue is broken up into opposing perspectives. A third character becomes integral to how things play out. The whole story is framed by slow, solemn gravedigging. There's seemingly endless rain, and storms, and fear. It's exceptional comics storytelling. After the showdown with Kraven and Vermin, Kraven decides to take his own life, I like how that scene got portrayed, but there doesn´t seem to be a real explanation on how he found that peace.Amazing Spider-Man #15 - reprinting the first appearance of Kraven. It's pretty standard Stan Lee stuff for the time, scripting over Ditko's artwork It was a list featuring material from all Marvel universe and Kraven’s Last Hunt was surpassed only by Civil War and The Death of Gwen Stacy. In the years that had passed from the time I pitched the original Wonder Man idea, my personal life had gone to hell in the proverbial hand basket,” said DeMatteis. “I felt as buried alive as Peter Parker; as much a dweller in the depths as Vermin; as lost, as desperate, as shattered as Sergei Kravinov. My own personal struggles, mirrored in the struggles of our three main characters, were, I think, what gave the writing such urgency and emotional honesty.”